Victorian Tintype in Velvet Horseshoe FrameWonderful mid 19th century tintype photo of a young girl mounted in an embossed paper frame inside a horseshoe shaped frame with glass. Refer to photos for size and condition: Excellent. The brown velvet is almost like new! Not fitted to hang, but you could easily string it up by its stand.

Original cloth body and china limbs

scenes of peril and escapes

this collection of sympathetic verses features a gilt decoration of a mourner by a cemetery monument on the cover & an engraved frontispiece of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia

The cover design is especially heartbroken: It depicts the empty crib of the title

Silver embellishment stamped STERLING & engraved M

I have a few in my collection

the book became hugely influential on the design and format of children’s books in decades to come

Frame is quite heavy and fitted to sit table top

and was even copied by Florenz Ziegfeld for his stage shows

The only real condition issue is that a piece of the black wrap on the handle is broken

That’s because they were originally supposed to be handles for an urn or ewer

she holds a scepter and the lion represents England